Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flame. Then out of the sea rises a dome of fire 20 miles across. The sea boils as if a volcano had poked through the crust of the earth, and a cloud of radioactive death drifts downwind. An earth wave jangles seismographs in San Francisco, St. Louis, New York, Madrid...
Franco's Spain, like Cromwell's England, maintains a stern attitude toward the proprieties. Respectable ladies of Madrid see that their evening gowns are cut high in back as well as in front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
...when a local photographer began to display some of the pictures he took that night, the military governor at Malaga seized the pictures and sent them to the civil governor, who in turn sent them on to Madrid. There, it was rumored, they were shown to Franco himself. As a result, Munn was fined $250 for arranging a meeting "of manifestly immoral nature." Each of his 40-odd guests was fined $75 for attending. Last week, after protesting in vain to the U.S. embassy, Cave Man Munn and a dozen of his playmates hired Spanish lawyers to file an appeal...
Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga is one of the few men unafraid to speak out in Franco's Spain. Last week in a pastoral letter published in Madrid's Catholic daily Ya, the bishop said: "There is in the conscience of Spain a great lack . . . We have created a type of Christianity poor in social virtues. The lack of justice and, to a great extent, of mercy, maintains a system of sharing the national wealth which gives to a minority the great bulk of our income and keeps the multitude in poverty...
...they present to the nation. They do not have the remotest idea of the atmosphere which their insensitive conduct foments in factories, in the fields, in the university and in professional circles." The bishop may have had in mind the secret government poll taken recently at the University of Madrid, which showed 60% of the students against the regime (TIME...